The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Always a new use for this old building.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.